John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

Draugnar wrote: power steering Be careful, you're dangerously close to losing man-points.

You try finding a C4 that doesn't have power steering. Can't be done. They only made them with the power... However, try turning those 265/40 ZR-17s when the power sterring pump just dumped it's guts on the pavement. Curbs come at you real fracking fast at 75mph on the back end of an autocross straightaway. Then talk to me about manhood...

Awesome time for any car on street tires. My Vette is street legal as well and runs a 13.2 with 305/35 ZR-17s on the rear. I'm amazed you manage to hook up with the narrower width tires a 65 'Stang will sport and pull that kind of time. What brand and size tires do you run on it? I might have to reconsider my BFGs.

My '93 Corvette (mildly modded LT1 with DRM chip and larger throttle body and exhaust) will do better than 165, and it costs, with mods (but not repairs), less than $30K to date ($25K for the car, another $5K for the upgrades). Of course, when you run a car at the track at 165+, things break and you spend money fixing them. Add all of it together (water pumps, optisparks, power steering pumps, a set of 265/40 front and 305/35 rear B.F. Goofrichs every year, etc.) and I probably have close to $45K in the last 7 years.

Irony of ironies... My one and only (to date) certification is from Sun as a J2SE programmer, yet I work almost exclusively in .NET 2.0 on production projects and new .NET (and Silverlight) for proof of concept projects. I started in Java when I was working on projects in Lotus Notes as there were things I needed to do that LotusScript (basically an extension of VBScript) wasn't up to. I will admit that my time as a Java developer instilled a better knowledge of OO concepts that my prior years in VB/VBScript/LotusScript did NOT provide. Now, I am pretty much a hardcore C# guy, but Java made the transition to C# VERY easy. I always hated C++ back in my college days/mid-80s. C and C++ always made things harder than they needed to be. There are some things I miss about Java, though. Like adding or not adding listeners as you see fit... Draugnar

Here's a URL for an intrepid deconstructionist to hack out. http://www.shringar.co.in/pressroom/newsdetails.asp?press_id={B5079EAA-06FA-4D6A-8E82-688BAE7E665E}[^]

It's inline server tags, not code behind. And, in fact, their other pages are in classic ASP, not ASP.NET (extension is .asp, not .aspx)

As has already been pointed out... We now know that they use inline SQL, so the first input page you come too makes it ripe to do the injection attack with a 'drop tables' in it.

Or ILBeBack?

Then use NtrxXMLContainer.

Orange juice has over 30 grams of sugar per 8 ounce serving. Use water and dunk, a lot!

Have lots of water to dip them and wring them in. It compresses them down and they take up less room. despite the temptation, don't use milk. Ever try drinking a gallon of milk in an hour? It will make you sick. Soaked before stuffing, they should slide down without really chewing. You WILL get sick later, but $300 pays for a lot of porcelain prayer time. Draugnar

Some similar stuff to what I do. when it was just me, I called myself IT Director (owner's didn't mind), but now that I have a staff of one under me (sort of, he's really my equal in dev work), I've dropped down to Chief Technologist and given the development title to my new guy. In a similar position at my previous employer, my official title was Global Application Architect, but I didn't have the systems/infrastructure work. All my responsibility lay in software design/development/implementation. I think a title of Infrastructure & Systems Development Manager would be a good title if they'll let you use the Manager term.

Or just look at the disclaimer in fine print at the bottom of the page where it clearly says they are spoofs and "even you laughter is fake" or something to that effect.

If EVERYTHING failed, we'd be unable to do business, but that would mean two datacenters in Rackspace (IAD and DFW) would have to go down completely as well. We have insurance and Rackspace provides guarantees, so we'd recover once things came back up, but we would have no sales, being as our product is primarily sold online and all of our engraving orders are picked up electronically by the engraver. If our local office lost its servers and internet connctivity, then the IT team and the owner would take our wireless laptops and a couple of CSRs down the road to the "Riverfront" where there is free wireless for all and set the CSRs up at the food court with our laptops and we'd forward our 800 number to ring on all the cells everybody had. Then we'd go shopping for a new box to be our in-house server (it's data is backed up nightly to our Rackspace backup web server). And, if Rackspace lost both Herndon, Viginia and Dallas, Texas, then there is something so huge happening (like an alien invasion) that we probably don't care about the business so much. Draugnar

I had one of those just yesterday. Two different javascript includes, one (WebApp specific functions) dependent on the other (a javascript library we use on of our WebApps). Unfortunately, the WebApp specific had some immediate code that called a function in the library, and someone (OK, me) put it on the new master page first. It kept throwing "Object not found" errors and took me 5 minutes to figure it out and smack my head and go "you DORK!" Draugnar

Much better... I was 20 and "sowing my oats" so to speak back then. I shared an apartment with two girls and yes, they got drunk on more than one night... Any more and it would not be kid-sister friendly. I even took pictures... It would still be three more years before I got married. My wife burned the polaroids...

Fercryinoutloud... I'm starting to feel like an old geezer here. Kids in high school and junior high? I thought CP was filled with software professionals. I was programming before either of those two were born. Heck, I was MARRIED before either of them were born. anyone else feeling a bit old right now?

OK, now I'm not getting ANY work done. That is just so much fun...

It's coming down pretty heavy here in NKY as well. It was snowing on my way in this morning and has accumulated more than an inch already (only the tops of the taller blades of grass are visible).

Gary Wheeler wrote:

Nope, I'm on the east side of Dayton. I work in Kettering (a Dayton suburb) and live in Xenia (famous for its bike paths and for getting torn up by tornados periodically).

My first ever job (16 years old in 1982) was programming an Apple IIe to read data from a Nicolette Oscilloscope, graphing it, and pushing it up to a DEC PDP-11 for analysis by the Fortran developers. It was a the prime "internship" for Mead Digital Systems JET progrma (Joint Education and Training) in Vandalia. I drew up on the northern edge of West Chester and my dad worked at MDS until they were bought by Kodak and turned into Diconix. He was one of the senior engineers who got layed off. I've also consulted at Daycon (was there when they moved from downtown to One Prestige Place by Dayton Mall) as well as consutling in Kettering (for The Other Place, a homeless shelter and advocacy group). Oh, and Wright-Patterson is my FAVORITE museum, period.

Gary Wheeler wrote:

I like Kentucky. I've done a couple contracting jobs 'south of the border' as it were, and really liked the area. Lots of nice hills for cycling on.

Go check out RoadID.com, if you haven't already. That's the company I work for (and the website I co-developed and regularly work on). We make wearable ID and safety equipment for endurance athletes. If you don't have one, a Road ID is one of the most important pieces of safety equipment you will ever buy.

Gary Wheeler wrote:

Looks like we're both getting the cruddy weather today, although if I remember the weather map, you're getting it worse than we are. Be safe when you head home today.

The weather report is saying the NW part of Cincy will get it the worst, but we are expecting 6 inches or more of snow in NKY today. My place in Hebron is likely to get more than my office in Ft. Mitchell. Stay in, stay safe, and stay warm! -Rob AKA Draugnar